# Buell (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/buell/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 6,522 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,338 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 47,339 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.9% (6,462 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Welsh surname, variant of Bowell, itself a variant of Powell (also see Howell). * As a Dutch surname, from the noun beul (“hangman”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Buell in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Buell in the United States and Canada.

## People named Buell

- Don Carlos Buell, American Union Army General (1818–1898)
- Bebe Buell, American model and singer
- William Buell Richards, 1st Chief Justice of Canada (1815-1889)
- Sarah Josepha Hale, American writer and editor (1788–1889)

## Similar surnames

Bell, Bello, Bull, Beall, Belle, Bella, Bellew, Buhl, Belli, Buelow, Bellah, Bulla.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.